Director Burr Steers’ film adaptation of author Ben Sherwood’s The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is lent appropriate amounts of sentimental whimsy, and grandiose melodrama by Sideways/Dexter/Up in the Air composer
Rolfe Kent. The story, which revolves around a young man grieving the death of his younger sibling, begs for a heavy dose of autumnal melancholy and late summer nostalgia, both of which
Kent applies here with great skill. ~ James Christopher Monger